– and the writing was telling him to figure out density. However, it wasn’t only economics that drove Brendan toward residential development. It was aesthetics. Brendan had always paid close attention to the design of the shopping centres he worked on – the materials, the look, the feel – and he found that apartment construction, by contrast, had largely abandoned those concerns. “Apartment buildings were largely built as kind of monolithic, kind of ugly block buildings,” he says. “I thought there must be a better way to do this and to build something with some architectural appeal.” That conviction – that the built environment matters, that a building should contribute something to the street and the neighbourhood it occupies – became the animating idea behind Woven Quarter Properties, which Brendan founded in 2019 and later brought on-board childhood friend and now partner John Cochren, another experienced real estate professional. “I think what really attracted me to doing my own thing was the opportunity to build something where I could have a hand in the design,” Brendan says. “I wanted to be able to stand back at the end of the day and be proud of building something that would stand the test of time.” APRIL 2026
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